Objective
The project seeks to modernise and take into the future the technology of the manufacture of large fixed welded structures such as box girder bridges, storage tanks, ships and other steel fabrications which arise on construction sites, in large chemical and foodstuff plants, on offshore oil platforms etc, bringing the world of fast and flexible manufacturing to areas were construction is presently carried out by traditional use of manual labour, scaffolding and cranes and the inconvenient delivery by road of large factory prefabricated components. It will do this by creating a transportable manufacturing cell consisting of a team of a team of cooperating climbing robot work tools whose activities are coordinated and integrated through a central intelligence. Unlike factory based cells the robot work tools must be mobile and able to climb over long distances, to great heights and over curved surfaces and surfaces with ridges or protrusions such as nodal joints, providing additional problems to be solved. Each robot will be dedicated to a different task to optimise overall system performance, hence there will be a surface profiler and navigator, welder , bolt and rivet placer, hot weld quality inspector, and cold weld inspector on separate platforms. The cell will be deployed through every stage of a product life cycle, during construction where the system will perform instant weld quality diagnostics and repairs, in service inspection and repair, and final lifetime assessment. Presently large fabrications on construction sites suffer from long fabrication times prescribed by traditional methods. The proposed mobile manufacturing cell will greatly reduce these times with economic benefits estimated at 630 MEuro per annum in save time and Labour and 2000MEuro in equipment sales taking EU export markets into account. The partnership involving 4 countries brings together world class expertise in informatics, robotics welding, storage tank, bridge and ship construction.
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2004-IST-NMP-2
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Coordinator
LONDON
United Kingdom
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